I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to… — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I am really blessed and fortunate to be on 'NCIS.' I really enjoy it, and I really enjoy the cast and all… — Brian Dietzen Copy Share Image
“I fought back the tears that came with experiencing something as perfect and powerful as the performance I'd just had. That was… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer,… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if… — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I want my life to consist of Hollywood franchises, to be honest. There are other types of work… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my… — Madisen Beaty Copy Share Image
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I… — Shanley Caswell Copy Share Image
Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect… — Jeff Garlin Copy Share Image
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood.… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than… — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of films being made but I feel watching a film in a theatre is quite a family experience… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
